id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6151 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I .txt text/plain 58803 2385 58 I Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference earliest Civilizers of Greece foreigners or Greeks?--The Foundation of race which appear to have exercised a dominant power in Greece. kings can be traced by tradition to a time long prior to the recorded mythological fable, I believe the earliest civilizers of Greece to king over a Grecian state:--the social life of the gods is the life formed by intercourse between Greece and Egypt in a far later age. whole character of the Athenian people--moral, social, religious, and At that time, as I have before stated, Greece was overrun by robbers: an extensive population was necessary to a powerful state, so Theseus A General Survey of Greece and the East previous to the time of the most powerful of the states of Greece; and Argos, next to Sicyori, many of the Dorian states--even Sparta itself--appear to have been ./cache/6151.txt ./txt/6151.txt